USGS & OptIPortal, a Mega LCD Wall, Used in Obama Inauguration Security
With support of the USGS and the University of Illinois-Chicago’s (UIC) Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL), security planning for president-elect Obama’s inauguration included technology called OptIPortal, a multi-screen, tiled wall of LCD monitors (Image at right: John R. Evans, USGS information technology specialist, briefs outgoing Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne (center) and Secretary-designee Ken Salazar (right). See more information about OptIPortals.
See the UIC press release as well as more graphics of the OptiPortal display at the SAGE/EVL gallery. (graphics used with permission of UIC)
